To re-live these characters would be wonderful, because I know when the show ends it will be huge mourning process.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I've met so many fans of daytime television who've watched the shows with their moms and grandmas and feel like they've known the characters their whole lives. It's sad for them to have to say goodbye to their favorite soaps and characters. We don't want that to happen to the 'Days' fans.
I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life.
I get inhabited by a character and then you mourn it. There's a period of mourning for me, definitely.
My main worry is that after a certain point you become so identified with a character and a series that you might not be able to get work when your show goes off the air.
It's so great to come in and do something where you know how strong the format of the show is and you're working with writers and directors who worked on the original show. It feels like you're going into a well-run ship already. Then it's just a matter of creating these new characters.
A lot of people say the sitcom is dead. I think they're right to some extent, in that the shows they're putting out are all the same.
I never like to think of any character as being over. I'm always thinking of different ways of bringing them back.
It would be fun to do a reunion show. I hope we do it some day, but it better be soon. We're all getting on.
As long as a character doesn't die, the character can always come back.
I don't want to be reincarnated, that's for sure. When you've had rewarding experiences in your life - a loving family, friends - you don't need additional reassurances that you're going to do something with a new cast of characters. I'd just as soon pass.